A Winning Strategy
Interview by Karen Ceraso
New York State Tenants and Neighbors Coalition policy director Mike McKee reveals the secrets to winning the rent control battle.

I'm a Tenant and I Vote!
By Peter Dreier and Winton Pitcoff
A brilliant tenant organizing campaign kept New York State's rent control laws on the books. But, while the battle's won, the tenant losses were heavy and the war continues.

Rent Control Post Mortem
By Patricia A. Cantor
Cambridge tenant advocates fight to keep rents affordable after rent control's end in Massachusetts.

Special Section on Section 8:

A Withering Commitment
By Rachel Bratt
Fifty years of declining commitments to housing the poor set the stage for the current Section 8 crisis.


Up for Grabs
By Jim Grow
With a half million low-income housing units on the line, two differing legislative approaches to Section 8 expirations are examined.


CDCs and Section 8
By Bill Rumpf and Jan Breidenbach
Advice for nonprofits acquiring expiring use buildings.


Section 8 Reform – Points of View
Alice Basey, National Alliance of HUD Tenants
Michael Bodaken, National Housing Trust
Helen Dunlap, National Low Income Housing Coalition
Mary Ann Gleason, National Coalition for the Homeless
Paul S. Grogan, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
F. Barton Harvey, III, The Enterprise Foundation
Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy, II
George Knight, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

Sources for Section 8 Resource Materials

LIHPRHA
An update on the Low Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act

National Alliance of HUD Tenants
By Karen Ceraso
A young organization seeks to raise the voices of tenants in Section 8 housing.